Lama language (Burma)

Lama
Native to Burma
Native speakers
60,000 (1995)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lay
Glottolog (insufficiently attested or not a distinct language)
lama1289[2]

Lama is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in northern Burma near the border with Tibet, China. It is a mixed language, variously classified as a variety of Nung or Bai.

References

  1. Lama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lama (Myanmar)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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